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Marauders · week 6 · 2026

Mudd Beale was not supposed to be here

Ruth Fairbanks, features

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Mudd Beale had 193 yards. He was a basketball player until he was twenty, and it still shows. He answers every question in exactly one sentence, which his teammates have stopped remarking on. It counts the same as anybody else's.

The ledger, after seven seasons: 8,242 yards, thirty-six scores. He got to 1,502 once. Not this time. He has done it in two buildings.

Twenty-eight, and Belfast, Northern Ireland before that. Ask anybody: he says almost nothing and is listened to anyway.

The club is 6-0. Bryce Beale is in year twelve of it. The contract runs out in the spring.

This feature ran in the paper in week 6 of 2026. The rest of the season is there too.

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